Gold's Gym

It appears Gold's Gym International, Dallas, is putting the expansion of its Gold's Gym Express model on hold. The Express gyms, with memberships as low as $9.99 a month, were introduced in 2011, representing the company's venture into the high-volume, low-price sector of the industry.

Sixteen Gold's Gym locations in Phoenix, Las Vegas and Southern California are now called EOS Fitness after being acquired on Feb. 3 by two private equity firms: Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. (BRS) and Performance Equity Management (PEM). Terms of the deal were not disclosed....More

Anytime Fitness did not fall far from its perch atop the Entrepreneur magazine Franchise 500 list. One year after it was ranked No. 1, Anytime Fitness dropped one spot to No. 2 on this year's list....More

Seventeen former Gold's Gyms in Utah rebranded as VASA Fitness last week. The Gold's Gyms were operated by Body Firm Aerobics Inc., Orem, UT, which had been on Club Industry's Top 100 Clubs list for several years....More

Friends and colleagues in the health club industry are mourning the death of Keith Albright, the vice president of development at World Gym International who previously served as senior vice president of franchising at Gold's Gym....More

Gold's Gym, Dallas, has updated its policy for kids club care for children of its employees. The change leaves restrictions in all but four states in the amount of kids club time allotted for those employees....More

A Gold's Gym in Westborough, MA, is mourning the loss of a soldier who was killed last week in Afghanistan. Spc. Brian Arsenault, 28, not only was a member but had worked for the club for two years under previous ownership....More

Gold's Gym, Dallas, is making its second acquisition of 2014 with the purchase of all 23 clubs operated by The Rush Fitness Complex, Knoxville, TN. The deal was signed last Friday and will close next month....More